Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.